Only four days separate us from the start of Rich Rodriguez’s fifth season, when the Arizona Wildcats football team plays Brigham Young on Sept. 3 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.

As is customary on this Web site, we will count down the days with an interesting element associated with each day. This year the topic is the top 100 individual records in Arizona’s storied football past.

NCAA record: 427, Samaje Perine, Oklahoma vs. Kansas, Nov. 22, 2014

Ka’Deem Carey was already past the school record of 288 yards (set by Trung Canidate against ASU in 1998) late in a fourth quarter with a 71-yard burst to the Colorado 10. He kept on going from there, finishing with a Pac-12 record 366 yards and five touchdowns on 25 rushes.

“When I woke up this morning, I just had a great feeling and I put it my head that I wanted to get the school record,” Carey told the Tucson Citizen after Arizona’s 56-31 win over the beleaguered Buffaloes. “I didn’t want to tell anybody, but that’s what I thought.”

The former conference record was 357, which was an NCAA record when Rueben Mayes hit that number in 1984 for Washington State. Carey’s rushing total was the ninth-best in NCAA history — 40 yards away from the mark held by TCU’s LaDainian Tomlinson at the time.

With starting quarterback Matt Scott out because of a concussion and junior college transfer B.J. Denker making his first career start, Arizona’s offense gravitated to Carey, who entered the game 17th nationally with an average of 112.8 rushing yards per game.

ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beat reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won the 1996-97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America, among many other publications. He has also authored the book “The Highest Form of Living”, which is available at Amazon.